17/09 08:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Washington has announced the withdrawal of aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt from the region, an indication that it is firmly opposed to an expansion of the war between Israel and Hezbollah. Since the outbreak of the Gaza war, Hamas and Israel have both rejected President Joe Biden's ceasefire proposal, designed to prevent the conflict from ...
Vanessa Kallas 16/09 21:12 - Reading : less than a minute
From Gaza to Lebanon, This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the war between Hamas and Israel and its repercussions on the region. Here are the main highlights for September 16, 2024.
16/09 19:03 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the United States Special Presidential Envoy Amos Hochstein that Israel values US support, but will do "what is necessary" to tackle Hezbollah's threats, adding that "fundamental change" was needed on the Lebanese-Israeli border. Hochstein also met with senior officials in Israel including Defense ...
16/09 08:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
On Sunday, the Lebanese population was caught up in reports about leaflets supposedly dropped by an Israeli drone over the Wazzani and Ghajar areas. The leaflets, addressed to "residents and displaced persons" in the refugee camps, instructed them to evacuate their homes immediately and move north to the region of Khiam by 4 PM, warning them not ...
This Is Beirut 15/09 21:31 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
An Israeli border police officer was wounded in a stabbing attack on Sunday evening at a gate to Jerusalem's Old City, police said. The attack took place near the Damascus Gate in the historic walls of the Old City. "The stabbed officer was lightly wounded and was evacuated for medical treatment," the force said in a statement. "Border Police ...
This Is Beirut 15/09 20:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Israeli Ministry of Defense is recruiting African asylum seekers to carry out "potentially deadly" operations in Gaza in exchange for obtaining permanent resident status in Israel, according to reports by the Israeli media outlet Haaretz. Defense officials, speaking unofficially, confirmed to the center-left daily the existence of this ...
Hala Abdallah 15/09 20:39 - Reading : less than a minute
From Gaza to Lebanon, This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the war between Hamas and Israel and its repercussions on the region. Here are the main highlights for September 15, 2024.
This Is Beirut 15/09 13:22 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
On Sunday, tensions between Hezbollah and Israel escalated on the southern front. In the early evening, Hezbollah announced that it had launched drones to attack the command headquarters of the Military Gathering Battalion in the Golan Division at the Yarden barracks, resulting in casualties and injuries. However, Israeli media reported that five ...
This Is Beirut 15/09 10:57 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
The Houthis issued an announcement on Sunday warning the residents of Tel Aviv, in central Israel, that the area had become an active war zone, urging them to evacuate to a "humanitarian zone" in the Negev desert. Earlier in the day, a missile triggered a rush to shelters in central Israel on Sunday, a rare incident that caused no casualties but ...
This Is Beirut 14/09 22:12 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Gaza's Civil Defense announced on Saturday the deaths of eleven people, including women and children, in an overnight Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza City that was sheltering Palestinians displaced by the war. "We have recovered the bodies of eleven martyrs, including four children and three women, after an Israeli warplane carried out a ...
Hala Abdallah 14/09 21:32 - Reading : less than a minute
From Gaza to Lebanon, This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the war between Hamas and Israel and its repercussions on the region. Here are the main highlights for September 14th, 2024.
This Is Beirut 14/09 21:16 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared in a meeting of the security cabinet that it was only a matter of time before the war on the Israeli-Lebanese border expands, according to remarks reported on Saturday by Israel's Channel 13. “We are heading for a vast campaign of one intensity or another,” Netanyahu said in part. During the ...